polling stations in venezuela waiting for their last voters to cast their ballots but anticipation rising to see a longtime leader go chavez or his democratic opponent enrique capri list will take the helm in caracas. order showing between syria and turkey is fresh violence hits damascus with a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters. and italians fieri over mountain cuts descends into clashes while civil servants are marching for their jobs in spain.

four am in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news polling stations in venezuela are closing although some are still open as citizens wait to cast their final ballots in line no incidents have been reported during the election day as the nation chooses which candidate is going to run the country for the next six years incumbent leader roach aves faces the biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from enrique capri lissie young democrat with both candidates are vowing to respect the outcome of the election u.s. media coverage of the presidential race of venezuela has been criticized as biased against chavez asia times correspondent the best of our things washington would like a willing partner in iraq is not an intractable. it is the author election which is so seasonal i guess washington which it was the united states didn't love to have sex to be boring and stayed in the next level like it was to be sure job is before

these two of us but this is amazing because if you follow the mainstream media in india west's in the west in here and even a little still south america did private meet. it's also better even is when liberals are about to announce for instance show this is the most big one nice head of state in modern times even more than said that hussein. out of. the jet you made it it's amazing. these private groups are the least of them they are allied with washington just like the situation that you see cited as well so always the job is there just as a communist or even a fascist or even to me like a communist justice it's completely absurd. artie's correspondent lucy cavanagh is in venezuela posting all the latest news and photos from around the capitol follow her twitter feed to see updated on the country's choice for its political future. a

car bombs exploded near police headquarters in the syria's capital damascus killing at least one person syrian state t.v. is calling it an act of terror the blast to the latest in a series of attacks aimed at security personnel and government institutions with damascus particularly becoming a frequent target this as syria and turkey this week extreme another round of artillery shells across the border our middle east correspondent paula sneer has more there for the third straight day tickets i tell you he has fired into syria this coming just minutes off to a most had landed into fired from syria we understand that at least eight mortars were fired from to key into syria now according to the mayor of the to border town where this shell landed he says that there was very little damage other than damage to a grain depôt but other than that it landed in an empty field and there were no reports of injuries it is the same board of an age when five members of the same family

would be killed wednesday that was two women and three children when a mortified from syria now and again it was intentional building at the same time we're hearing continuing words from the prime minister that he will not allow these kind of events to go unprovoked he says that if pushed he will. u.k. war and that has been quite a strong message from him now that it's going to be soon that this instability and on the turkish syrian border will result in regional instability there's also concern by numerous critics who have put forth the argument that they believe that the shells that are being fired from the syrian side of being fired liberty in each remember that this rewarding area on the syrian side between syria and turkey is an area that is controlled by the rebels and as such it is possible that they're firing these these rounds deliberately to provoke turkey to go to nato and call for a foreign intervention of course this is something that many people are increasingly concerned about the situation in syria off to eighteen months of fighting is showing no lacing up there continues to be almost daily blas in the

capital city of damascus and they're particularly cost suicide bombings has become almost the norm the same situation is happening in the leftover the commercial hub of the country in the north and they we're hearing of continuous heavy fighting and also in recent days and in recent weeks we've witnessed a rise in suicide bombings there were also receiving a twitter feed from the shah adnan now he is a sunni muslim preacher and this salafist leader has become almost a symbol of the rebels feinstein and syria he says that they have captured the cousin of the syrian president bashar assad we have no information on that at this stage and no way of actually being able to independently prove it russia continues to play a mediating role they are expecting that the e.u. in nato envoy to syria could be in russia later this month and as such will be there for talks but russia is edging calm and saying that this kind of escalation

in tensions along the turkish syrian border is completely unacceptable in any kind of cross border operations are to be frowned upon portico arliss sure we know why do you think this action could be turkey's under the radar approach to intervention in syria. turkey's declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose the war they've supplied weapons and that's why training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to start or you know do a last question against the fed regime they cannot get a u.n. security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a backdoor into military intervention because of course turkey then caught can call on its nato allies to to assist in its sensually the nato allies who would anyways

do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution and there are questions about this is this the false why you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one bahrain is keeping up its crackdown on pro-reform demonstrators causing more fierce clashes between police and protesters friday tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse crowds violence started after the funeral of a young protester who died in custody shia activist demand equal rights from the sunni monarchy and the release of political prisoners one of them a prominent human rights defender and the already shah has gone on a hunger strike he was briefly released to attend his mother's funeral but not allowed to mourn further with his family where job is serving a three year jail term for participating in illegal gatherings meanwhile former c.n.n. reporter amber lyon believes her documentary on what's happening in bahrain was

censored by the network. brain is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this contents you know is is editorially and dependent and it doesn't see it the bahrain can. effect that what we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had at c.n.n. to get coverage accurate bahrain coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's this sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying customers who are able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who had run out of the

hospitals that were shot up with birdshot and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and brain and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broad some are able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine surprise when we got back to the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage. and violence and unrest has also returned to tunisia this time a clash over try at least thirteen thousand angry residents take to the streets setting cars on fire over the reopening of a rubbish dump more details on. washington becomes the latest u.s. city to display empty jihadi ads we look at whether it may actually be provoking more hatred toward the muslim community this and more a click away at our team dot com. the pakistani military has

blocked a man tell us motorcade route you heading toward the country's tribal hub along the afghan border the produce was led by cricket legend turned politician imran khan and attracted thousands a large number of civilians have died. in u.s. drone strikes khan is calling for an end to the strikes robert naiman an activist an analyst pushing for changes to u.s. policy says civilians have become the main victims from drone attacks not high level militant leaders in washington claims. president obama's counterterrorism adviser has claimed that civilian deaths from drone strikes are exceedingly rare well we know that the bureau of investigative journalism in the u.k. has counted somewhere between four hundred eight hundred. civilian deaths since two thousand and four from u.s. drone strike so in fact far from being exceedingly rare the civilian deaths are normal that's a regular thing and in fact there are seven to fifteen times as many as the death

of these so-called top level terrorist leaders so the actual policy is something completely different from the story that's being told united states the story is being told united states is it's all about targeting top level terrorist leaders and it's not killing civilians the reality is the total opposite of that the un special rapporteur tour on extrajudicial executions has said that you know if these reports are true about what the u.s. is doing they would constitute war crimes. u.s. involvement in neighboring afghanistan is also seen thousands of casualties among civilians as well as nato troops later on r t with the legacy of nato action there are eleven years on and its consequences this and more after the break stay with us . if you're passing through russia's to be a region you really can't walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt

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for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called. a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean the final and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the cool of the wilds.

thanks for staying with us fourteen minutes past the hour now and sturdy anger mounting in europe a civil servants take to the streets of madrid for a second day trade unions gathered thousands to demand an end to cutbacks in the public sector and privatization of public services believes also seen as fair share of action this week led by the country's students who clashed with police thousands marched there in major cities calling for the government to say that schools are not banks in a roll up to six policemen were injured as students board stones at them and tried to rush a police van meanwhile venice independent supporters marched saturday to demand the region go with a loan yet rest is prompting investment advisor patrick young to say the e.u. could be headed toward collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland into a beloit in order to basically appease french and german borrowers there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u.

has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not horribly soiled exercise in effectively breaching the people and trying to destroy economies the european union has several fundamental problems ultimately it is a very rich area with a great deal of resources the difficulty is it's very difficult to start a business it's very difficult to run a business if you're successful in business they're going to tax you to death and in the meantime they're all running absolutely ridiculous communist era sized socialist states the truth is western europe is bankrupt it cannot afford to have the government be the major economic actor in the system and therefore just as we saw russian communism collapsed so too we're seeing the death of western european socialism october seventh eleven years ago the u.s. led war in afghanistan began more than three thousand alliance troops have died in

the conflict since most of them americans far more afghan civilians have also lost lost their lives international affairs commentator rick rose off from stop nato thinks the alliances foster discontent among the afghan people. versus little has been accomplished in any positive sense of course for the western military intervention and occupation of afghanistan. most are you know arguably the only accomplishment dubious as it is that opium production of skyrocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan you know evidently the afghan people are not fond of having foreign boots on the ground and no particularly after such a long period of time the so-called green on blue attacks are an indication of the rank and file of the afghan population. would like to see us in their nato allies or the us in their nato allies vacate the country as quickly as possible and that none of this. debacle would have occurred in the first place out of nothin for the

harder in the reagan administrations for a the war which a disaster bated ethnic and regional and other tensions inside the country and theirs and in essence led to thirty four year war in afghanistan and we have to place the blame where it belongs you know this is the result of u.s. intervention going back to the late one nine hundred seventy s. south korea signed an agreement with the us that allows it to business missiles capable of reaching any part of north korea a previous armed arms pact with washington restricted souls' ability to develop or deploy long range rockets leaving many targets in the communist state out of reach tim beal an asia specialist from london thinks the real goal behind the deal could be different in china. this new range will take into china that i think has been the sticking point. and seizures of the americas and now increased to it. sooner so it was the american election everything to do with elections from the south korea's point of view they want to build in capability for their next in

. december which conceivably might have been more peaceful government i think this . signing has nothing very much to do with that satellite test is just the product of long discussions and both sides thinking this is it time for electoral reasons to come to an agreement to to extend a ballistic missile range there is a certain reason for concern i mean more missiles around them there is a danger of things that basically says you don't really think it makes any any peaceful difference in the balance of balance of power in east asia on me in americans favor in south korean state or north korea is the only thing weak in military terms in real terms and we have to see this within the context of on

american strategy to contain china turning now to some other news making headlines across the globe libya's recently elected minister has been forced to stand down after a no confidence vote from parliament mustafa failed for a second time when lawmakers approval for a new cabinet you know cabinet lineup was rejected on thursday protesters stormed the building calling for the prime minister's resignation or was the country's first elected leader after last year's overthrow of colonel gadhafi. that alleged palestinian militant was killed nine others injured by an israeli airstrike in gaza the aircraft targeted two motorcyclists whose real claims were jihadi plotting a terror attack against troops and civilians but this is identified one is a member of the palestinian militant group three children were among those are. sudan's president has ordered land and river border crossings with south sudan to be reopened this after the two countries president's last month signed deals on

security and cooperation held by experts as a signal of the end to the long running tension the two nations broke apart in july last year after decades of civil war. misunderstanding is left a young russian man badly beaten and in a hospital bed the student who'd been detained on charges that were later dropped now faces a lengthy and on certain recovery after being brutally beaten by inmates and acadian juvenile detention center this family and friends say the country's authorities aren't doing anything to help out as artie's polly boycott reports. a trip to study english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's remand center actually we're going to stay safe like you were just tell me. you know i don't know

whether you know what you claimed now that you know what no direct threat or something i mean. i don't know why it was just a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the wass cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly little after months on a life support machine denise recently retained consciousness doc to say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated by the lane not eating on his arm you have been there already and you grieving through your. lawyer or you go our way from wearing you know. very slowly or. the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing

a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise funds for denise's ballooning medical bills. will watch action. or. do you call them to call them bull or. general. or will or will we all hope all will be warm. again denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man christopher kirk suffered a lacerated spleen and a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. very often and sharpening all we were and it didn't are a lot but. you know when we were there even going to remember. in the war i mean. how the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like

he didn't initially set out is now a distant prospect fast he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help he so desperately needs party boyko r t knowing that next we'll talk with an award winning economist on a story and to get his take on how to mend britain's economy that's after a short break. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first.

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and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i was cornish quickly become a magnet for nature lovers and if you will seekers you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even run in water for most people a tent is there on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. a journey to buy coal can be unique a trip of a lifetime and local the. so once you've seen it going to be coming back again and again. the world to the. audience technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've. covered.

more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are today. today i'm talking to north robert skidelsky he's a professor of political economy and also the biographer of john may not keynes

widely considered to be the most influential economist of the twentieth century we'll be talking about what keynes could bring to today's economic crisis notes could ask you first could you explain to me in layman's terms what the government is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think their policies of made things worse. the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like a very slowly leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a stimulus but i think they're quite new initiatives and it's too early to say how much effect they'll have but in general i don't think they will have very much effect and so i don't think at the moment they're doing anything very much to

help because there's an awful lot of talk about prioritizing the economy and it's the main thing that we have to work on but then on the same time you say that not very much has been done at all one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves first of all it was it was the euro crisis then it was the high high commodity rise in commodity prices and so they claim that the policy of a stir to should bring about the recovery but that it's been derailed by these unfortunate acts shocks but the policy of a stir. is basically wrong when there is a lack of private sector demand when banks are lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing.